Shauna O'Brien
Encyclopedia
Shauna O'Brien is a model
, actress in B-movies and an erotic actress.
She is sometimes credited as Steve Jean, Shana O'Brien or Shawna O'Brien.
As Stevie Jean she was chosen Penthouse
Pet of the Month January 1992.
family. She spent her time riding and competing horses at local rodeos and enjoyed riding dirtbikes and four wheelers. She was engaged in many sports: volleyball
, basketball
and cheerleading
. She excelled at snowmobile
racing as a teenager even winning several trophies. Shauna also competed in bodybuilding
. At the age of 18 she moved to Los Angeles
.
She started out doing extra work for Blockbuster films for a couple of years. It helped pay her bills and allowed Shauna to get her SAG
card (as a result from a small role in Three Men and a Baby
which was cut from the film). She took acting classes, but was never serious about them because she was put off by the attitudes of various acting coaches.
Shauna then started modeling for such clients as Fredericks of Hollywood, Muscle & Fitness
(3 Covers), Penthouse Pet Centerfold Jan 92 (under the name Stevie Jean) among many other publications. Shauna appeared on and in numerous trading cards, posters, calendars and TV commercials, along with many music videos and TV shows.
Early in her career, she had roles in such softcore
fare as Seduce Me: Pamela Principle 2 and Wild Malibu Weekend. Her breakout role came with Friend of the Family (1995) where she played Elke Taylor, a friend of the Stillman Family who moves in with them and ends up seducing them one by one. A director named Edward Holzman (whom she had made a few films with) contacted her and offered her a small role in his movie Elke. At the last minute Shauna replaced the lead actress, Brandy Sanders
. This led to starring roles in direct-to-video softcore fare like Fugitive Rage, Striking Resemblance, Desirable Liaisons, and Summer Temptations 2.
At one point in her career, Shauna made the controversial move of having plastic surgery done to her breasts. She explained in an interview that she had just given birth to a baby girl and realized that, "When you have a child it can wreak havoc on your body. I do a lot of nudity and was not comfortable with my boobs hanging to my knees, so I had them fixed. I liked the way they looked before much better, but I did what I had to do for my own comfort...not anyone else's."
Shauna also made an appearance on PBS' Frontline talking about her work posing nude on online pay sites and has been an outspoken critic of some of the more unsavory aspects of the porno industry. She has owned her own site since 1996.
Shauna enjoys being at home with her family, cooking, cleaning, reading romance novels and watching movies.
Model (person)
A model , sometimes called a mannequin, is a person who is employed to display, advertise and promote commercial products or to serve as a subject of works of art....
, actress in B-movies and an erotic actress.
She is sometimes credited as Steve Jean, Shana O'Brien or Shawna O'Brien.
As Stevie Jean she was chosen Penthouse
Penthouse (magazine)
Penthouse, a men's magazine founded by Bob Guccione, combines urban lifestyle articles and softcore pornographic pictorials that, in the 1990s, evolved into hardcore. Penthouse is owned by FriendFinder Network. formerly known as General Media, Inc. whose parent company was Penthouse International...
Pet of the Month January 1992.
Career
Shauna was raised on a farm in Pasco with seven brothers in a big IrishIrish people
The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...
family. She spent her time riding and competing horses at local rodeos and enjoyed riding dirtbikes and four wheelers. She was engaged in many sports: volleyball
Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
, basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
and cheerleading
Cheerleading
Cheerleading is a physical activity, sometimes a competitive sport, based on organized routines, usually ranging from one to three minutes, which contain the components of tumbling, dance, jumps, cheers, and stunting to direct spectators of events to cheer on sports teams at games or to participate...
. She excelled at snowmobile
Snowmobile
A snowmobile, also known in some places as a snowmachine, or sled,is a land vehicle for winter travel on snow. Designed to be operated on snow and ice, they require no road or trail. Design variations enable some machines to operate in deep snow or forests; most are used on open terrain, including...
racing as a teenager even winning several trophies. Shauna also competed in bodybuilding
Bodybuilding
Bodybuilding is a form of body modification involving intensive muscle hypertrophy. An individual who engages in this activity is referred to as a bodybuilder. In competitive and professional bodybuilding, bodybuilders display their physiques to a panel of judges, who assign points based on their...
. At the age of 18 she moved to Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
.
She started out doing extra work for Blockbuster films for a couple of years. It helped pay her bills and allowed Shauna to get her SAG
Screen Actors Guild
The Screen Actors Guild is an American labor union representing over 200,000 film and television principal performers and background performers worldwide...
card (as a result from a small role in Three Men and a Baby
Three Men and a Baby
Three Men and a Baby is a 1987 comedy film starring Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg, Nancy Travis , and Ted Danson, and directed by Leonard Nimoy, in his first non-Star Trek movie directorial role. It follows the mishaps and adventures of three bachelors as they attempt to adapt their lives to...
which was cut from the film). She took acting classes, but was never serious about them because she was put off by the attitudes of various acting coaches.
Shauna then started modeling for such clients as Fredericks of Hollywood, Muscle & Fitness
Muscle & Fitness
Muscle & Fitness is an American bodybuilding magazine founded by Joe Weider, but now published by American Media, Inc.-History:Muscle & Fitness has a more mainstream focus than its companion publication, Flex...
(3 Covers), Penthouse Pet Centerfold Jan 92 (under the name Stevie Jean) among many other publications. Shauna appeared on and in numerous trading cards, posters, calendars and TV commercials, along with many music videos and TV shows.
Early in her career, she had roles in such softcore
Softcore
Softcore pornography is a form of filmic or photographic pornography or erotica that is less sexually explicit than hardcore pornography. It is intended to tickle and arouse men and women. Softcore pornography depicts nude and semi-nude performers engaging in casual social nudity or non-graphic...
fare as Seduce Me: Pamela Principle 2 and Wild Malibu Weekend. Her breakout role came with Friend of the Family (1995) where she played Elke Taylor, a friend of the Stillman Family who moves in with them and ends up seducing them one by one. A director named Edward Holzman (whom she had made a few films with) contacted her and offered her a small role in his movie Elke. At the last minute Shauna replaced the lead actress, Brandy Sanders
Brandy Ledford
Brandy Lee Ledford also known as Jisel is an American actress, model and Penthouse Magazine's 1992 Pet of the Year. She played the role of Doyle in the science fiction TV series Andromeda...
. This led to starring roles in direct-to-video softcore fare like Fugitive Rage, Striking Resemblance, Desirable Liaisons, and Summer Temptations 2.
At one point in her career, Shauna made the controversial move of having plastic surgery done to her breasts. She explained in an interview that she had just given birth to a baby girl and realized that, "When you have a child it can wreak havoc on your body. I do a lot of nudity and was not comfortable with my boobs hanging to my knees, so I had them fixed. I liked the way they looked before much better, but I did what I had to do for my own comfort...not anyone else's."
Shauna also made an appearance on PBS' Frontline talking about her work posing nude on online pay sites and has been an outspoken critic of some of the more unsavory aspects of the porno industry. She has owned her own site since 1996.
Shauna enjoys being at home with her family, cooking, cleaning, reading romance novels and watching movies.
Partial filmography
- Guest appearances in Pretty WomanPretty WomanPretty Woman is a 1990 romantic comedy film set in Los Angeles, California. Written by J.F. Lawton and directed by Garry Marshall, this motion picture features Richard Gere and Julia Roberts, and also Hector Elizondo, Ralph Bellamy, and Jason Alexander in supporting roles. Roberts played the only...
, FlatlinersFlatlinersFlatliners is a 1990 American thriller film starring Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon, William Baldwin and Oliver Platt as medical students using physical science in an attempt to find out if there's anything out there beyond death by conducting clandestine experiments with near-death...
, Another 48 Hours, Three Men and a Baby, The Marrying Man. - Friend of the Family (1995) .... Elke Taylor
- The Escort (1997) .... Suzanne Lane
- Zorrita: Passion's Avenger (2000) .... Bella/Zorrita
- Sex Files: Creating the Perfect Man (2000) .... Amy
- Platinum Blonde (2001) .... Tawny
- Dangerous Invitations (2002) .... Sophie
Notable TV guest appearances
- Kama Sutra playing "Daphne" in episode: "Ménage à Trois" (episode # 1.5) July 22, 2000
- Kama Sutra playing "Camille" in episode: "The Art of Biting" (episode # 1.10) 2000
- Beverly Hills Bordello playing "Pam" (as Shawna O'Brien) in episode: "Role Play" (episode # 3.2) 1998
- Beverly Hills Bordello playing "Lily" in episode: "Silence Is Golden" (episode # 1.12) 1996
- Star Trek: The Next GenerationStar Trek: The Next GenerationStar Trek: The Next Generation is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry as part of the Star Trek franchise. Roddenberry, Rick Berman, and Michael Piller served as executive producers at different times throughout the production...
playing "Omag's Woman" in episode: "Unification: Part 2" (episode # 5.8) November 9, 1991 - Emmanuelle 2001EmmanuelleEmmanuelle is the lead character in a series of French softcore erotic movies based on a character created by Emmanuelle Arsan in the novel Emmanuelle...
(16 episodes) - Lady Chatterly's StoriesLady Chatterly's StoriesLady Chatterley's Stories is an erotic softcore TV show that aired on Showtime where it continues running in syndication to this day.-Premise:...
(23 episodes)
Appearances in music videos
- Mötley CrüeMötley CrüeMötley Crüe is an American heavy metal band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1981. The group was founded by bass guitarist Nikki Sixx and drummer Tommy Lee, who were later joined by lead guitarist Mick Mars and lead singer Vince Neil...
- "Primal Scream" - Danger DangerDanger DangerDanger Danger is an American glam metal band, formed in 1987 in Queens, New York. Despite enjoying moderate success in the U.S. with their debut album Danger Danger, the band vanished from the radar due to legal problems and changes in its line-up....
- "Monkey Business" - PoisonPoison (band)Poison is an American glam metal band that achieved great success in the mid-1980s to mid-1990s. To date, Poison has sold over 30 million records worldwide and have sold 15 million records in the United States alone. The band has also charted ten singles to the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100,...
- "Fire and Ice" - GerardoGerardoGerardo Mejía , better known as simply Gerardo, is a Latin rapper and singer who later became a recording industry executive. Born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, he has based his career in Los Angeles, California since his family moved to Glendale, California, when he was 12 years old. He became known for...
- "When the Lights Go Out" - Pauly ShorePauly ShorePaul Montgomery "Pauly" Shore is an American comedian and actor who starred in several comedy films in the 1990s and hosted a video show on MTV in the late 1980s and early 1990s...
- "Thank God I'm a Country Boy" - DanzigDanzig (band)Danzig is an American heavy metal band, formed in 1987 in Lodi, New Jersey. The band serves as a musical outlet for the singer/songwriter Glenn Danzig. Danzig can be seen as the third stage in Glenn Danzig's musical career, preceded by the horror punk bands The Misfits and Samhain...
- "How The Gods Kill"